SHIFT Business Festival is a platform that has brought together C-level decision-makers, business developers, and tech-heads from growth companies across the board since 2016. The highlight of the year is a two-day business festival in Turku, Finland. We encourage and support our festival attendees and partners to find their competitive advantage in new technology applications and sustainable business. Our company is based in Turku and is the most important business event in the region and a solid actor in the local business ecosystem. Behind SHIFT is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and supported by network with firm supporters like Turku Science Park, Boost Turku, JCI, Creve, Turku Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

Textual is the leading Generative AI tool in the Nordics. We helps online retailers with automating processes for content creation and translations! Textual provides a unique AI-solution for text generation and translation. Clients can generate unique product descriptions, category pages, online ads and personalized offers. Our foundation is based on a mix of AI and rulebased framework to ensure correct and natural language and full control over variation of the texts. Our clients include Dustin, Trendyol, John Lewis, Ellos, NA-KD, Royal Design, Jollyroom, Bilia and more.

ResQ Club is a Finnish company connecting sustainable restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores with consumers that appreciate eating affordable quality food. We are on a mission to reduce food waste to zero at restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores. It's estimated that 10% of the already produced food in restaurants ends up in the trash instead of hungry mouths. On a global scale, this equals 11 million tons of food wasted every year. We know we have a lot to do, but don't be mistaken: we are fully committed to getting to zero. We at ResQ Club believe that motivated and satisfied employees are the driving force behind any company's success, which is why we want to offer you a relaxed, informal and supportive atmosphere.

Krown is the ultimate dating app for those who love going out and making real connections. We link you with people attending the same events, so if you're heading to a concert, festival, or local hotspot, why not make it a date? Swipe to find others who are going to the same place at the same time and elevate your night out. Key Features: Pre-Planned Dates: Meet up at events you're already excited about. Live Mode: Discover other singles at your favorite spots in real-time. Tailored Venue Suggestions: Get personalized recommendations for the best places to go out. Virtual Revisits: Missed a connection? Revisit past venues virtually to reconnect. Find Things to Do Together: Explore and share amazing events and experiences. Krown makes meeting new people fun, easy, and spontaneous. Turn your next night out into a memorable adventure with Krown!

Meet the next Swedish unicorn straight from the streets of Stockholm sitting at SSE Business Lab Pango is building the world's first Agentic Operating System for e-commerce logistics. Our vision is to create the AI e-commerce employee of the future. While deliveries and returns are a hidden and often tedious aspect of e-commerce, we are bringing innovation to a legacy $90 billion industry. When we started, we already had 39 competitors in the Nordics. Yet, just two months after launching, we achieved product-market fit and are now powering million-dollar brands with our product. We’re building the future with those who want to say “I was there when it all started.”

We’re a community organisation aiming to build a world-class startup ecosystem in Aarhus backed by amazing stakeholders such as Aarhus University, Business Academy Aarhus, VIA University, The City Council of Aarhus, and Region Midtjylland. At Startup Aarhus we initiate programs and activities, that help solve our founder’s biggest challenges. Whether it’s securing funding, building networks, or gaining insights, we’re here to help you move forward, and make it easier for startups to change the world.

Legal is an established and highly prestigious discipline. It is a pillar of our societies and a cornerstone of the global order, forming the foundation that supports cooperation between nations. European small and medium enterprises (SME's) spend a combined average of 350 billion hours on compliance annualy. Compliance is expensive, time consuming, and complicated. What if we could speed the compliance process and democratize legal access? That is exactly what eulaw.ai is. Imagine ChatGPT but specialized on european legal data giving you instant answers based on analyzing hundreds of thousands legal documents in a blink of an eye. We want to bring legal assistance to everyone. If a SME wants to optimize compliance research times they can. If a citizen needs guidance for their eg, mortgage, they can - using eulaw.ai. AI opens the door for people to understand complicated and huge datasets in seconds. Eulaw.ai aims to train AI on all European and its member countries legal data streamlining any European legal research process.

Partisia is a pioneer and a world-leader in commercial applications of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). The company is co-founded by world leading cryptographers and Partisia has provided state-of-the-art security solutions based on MPC across industrial and financial solutions since 2008. Partisia has worked on combining MPC with Blockchain technologies, aiming to set a new standard for digital infrastructures. The resulting infrastructure provides enhanced integrity, confidentiality, and transparency without the need to trust any single third party (sometimes referred to as “trustless”). Examples are financial trading with Tora and Caspian and data exchange with Insights.network.

Fygë is a dynamic and innovative company at the forefront of transforming the corporate catering industry. We're on a mission to make corporate events and food for work exceptional through our ‘soon-to-launch’ collection of enterprise solutions. We back this up with business-grade, best-in-class, customer service and technology as a differentiator, which are key components of our success. Trust powers everything we do. We push ourselves every day to improve performance and deliver an amazing customer experience with high-quality products. Our culture relies on trust, innovation, and transparency.

We are a social and environmental impact company specialised in teaching foreign language for adults and adolescents, helping them to seize global education and career opportunities. We aspire to become a top destination for online foreign language education for people and companies alike. Since our start, we have built a team of world class English language professionals with years of teaching experience in the field. This enables us to create engaging online language courses, lessons and other learning modalities across a wide variety of categories. We are growing now and looking for marketing, product and sales talent to help us reach our audience.

We specialize in designing cutting-edge materials for energy storage applications. Our expertise lies in identifying the most promising materials that meet the specific requirements of energy storage use cases, and by leveraging advanced simulation techniques, such as computational chemistry and AI, we provide solutions that maximize performance, efficiency, and sustainability. With a focus on innovation and collaboration, we bridge the gap between material science and energy storage applications, enabling a cleaner, more efficient, and sustainable energy future. With a long experience from industry, we have strong focus on the problem, and on developing business models to commercialise these emerging technologies

HenryFlow is a platform that makes it possible for SMEs to automate 80% of their business in 60 seconds without any technical skills. We do this through cutting-edge machine learning and NLP technology. Starting and/or running a startup or small business is hard. Software tools are here to help you, but with over 30,000 SaaS systems on the market, how do you make sure you implement the right systems in the right way? Having a great tech stack is a prerequisite for success for these companies, but in the early stages, trying to figure out and implementing their tech is only slowing them down and delaying innovation. This problem does not only occur in the early stages of companies. When companies grow, they naturally need more advanced systems. But how do you implement the right systems and make sure they are integrated with your other systems? Between 49% - 70% of internal software implementations fail or do not deliver the expected value. HenryFlow wants to change this for good and make smooth, value-adding software implementation accessible for everyone. HenryFlow solves this problem in the following ways: 1) Based on information you provide about your company, and our large database of similar companies, Henry suggests the most optimal SaaS tech stack for your specific company. 2) Henry fully integrates all the chosen systems in the backend, so they feel like one. 3) Henry suggests workflow-automations between your systems to automate your work to the fullest 4) You can define any additional workflow-automations through Natural Language. Just tell Henry what you want. :) 5) Henry works in your browser. You can always ask him about your workflows or how to use your systems. 6) Henry collects data points on how you use your systems and suggests specific automations that will reduce your work real time. Our vision is to create freedom and opportunity through Automation and AI. We believe that it is way too hard to succeed as a small business. By putting AI in the hands of these companies, we want to create new opportunities for growth and innovation. Business owners should be spending time innovating on the products and creating great things, not on failed IT implementations and admin tasks! Additionally, most people start businesses to take back control over their own lives. They want to be their own boss and feel independent. Unfortunately, those dreams often do not last long. As their company grows, they get more work. Work that has nothing to do with their passion: accounting, taxes, salaries, stock management, project management, reporting, etc. At HenryFlow, we want to give business owners back their freedom.

MDSI are working on innovative new products, which we believe will fill a gap within the Defence Industry. Our mission is to combine military operational experience with rapid innovation to deliver innovative solutions to a market that is traditionally slow moving. MDSI currently consists of 25 dedicated employees, including 8 engineers, and we expect to add 10-15 new employees to our team within the next year.

Nord Modules develop and manufacture top modules for autonomous mobile robots from MiR, Omron, and OTTO Motors. The top modules provide functionality to the mobile robot making it capable of lifting, receiving, and delivering goods. The focus is on internal load transfer and delivering standard reliable robotic applications that provide superior ROI through the company's three core values: Quality, Space, and Flexibility. Nord Modules' proprietary "One System Fits All" solution offers exceptional versatility and adaptability in various production and logistics environments, making the company a top choice for businesses seeking to optimize their operations with advanced technology. The robust industrial-grade solutions extend the capabilities of mobile robots, elevating automation to new heights. The safe and user-friendly products enhance the transportation of heavy payloads between production lines and storage systems.

At Over Easy Solar, we are tackling the challenge of underutilized rooftop spaces for solar energy, particularly focusing on flat rooftops and green roofs, which are often overlooked due to concerns about maintenance, energy efficiency, and potential damage from traditional solar panels. Rooftops represent a significant opportunity for clean energy production, yet their potential is often untapped. Our solution is the innovative vertical bifacial solar panel, which is specifically designed to overcome these challenges. This unique panel integrates seamlessly with flat roofs and green roofs, maximizing energy output without disrupting the environment. By using a prefabricated design, we streamline the installation process, making it up to ten times faster than conventional systems while reducing costs. The vertical configuration allows our panels to capture more sunlight, especially during peak demand times, such as mornings, evenings, and winter months, increasing energy efficiency when it’s most needed. Additionally, the panels’ design ensures easy access and reduces the need for heavy ballast, making them compatible with most roofs. Our mission is to unlock the potential of underutilized spaces, contributing to the global transition to renewable energy while supporting EU energy goals for rooftop photovoltaic (PV) installations. By providing an efficient, eco-friendly, and versatile solar solution, we are helping to build a cleaner, more sustainable future.